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Retired s/police officer. First UK police officer stationed in Italy and Albania 1991/94. Worked with Judge Giovanni Falcone in UK and Italy. Author Scott's Forgotten Surgeon. Suffolk resident.
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UK Abortion Vote: Still Illegal. Still Screwed. “Abortion is decriminalised!” No it fucking isn’t. NC20 is shelved as Farage circles like a vulture, just waiting to implement evangelical MAGA style restrictions on women’s bodies. This isn’t progress. youtu.be/wjA42C-mdUk

🥴 Putin: We do not consider NATO rearmament a threat because we are constantly improving our armed forces. 🤡 Putin: Increasing NATO countries' defense spending to 5% of GDP makes no sense. 🇮🇷 Putin: Over 200 Russian experts are currently helping build two more nuclear reactors in Iran.

Shelagh Fogarty started her LBC show with a blatant pro-life lie. Pregnancy CANNOT be “legally aborted up to 9 months”. Abortion isn’t decriminalised. It’s still only allowed until 24 wks. Two docs (who could face arrest) must sign it off. She’s an idiot that’s spreading disinformation.

The reality of our "friend and ally", and massive #ArmsSales customer, #SaudiArabia. No #HumanRights or #RuleofLaw www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

As a 15yo mum, I was told what happened was my fault. Kemi Badenock had power, yet did not meet one victim, or speak about grooming once. I do not know how she dares try & score points now. Thank god we have a gov that is taking violence against women & girls seriously.

Tory MP Chris Philp criticising a Labour government, of less than a year, for doing the things a Tory government of 14 years failed to #PMQs #PoliticsLive

Trump’s Yemen bombings killed nearly as many civilians as in 23 previous years of US attacks, analysis shows

Diplomacy and leadership 👇👇👇👇👇

"Zack will help us win more MPs. He talks across the board to everyone." Julia Hilton is Deputy Leader of Hastings Borough Council. Thank you, @juliahilton.bsky.social! #BackZack

Reform’s chaotic time in local government showed no signs of stabilising this week, as a further two councillors lost their roles after only being elected in the previous month. A total of nine councillors have now left their positions within the last six weeks

Today, we laid out our proposal to ban Russian gas imports by the end of 2027. Europe has already cut its dependence drastically. Now, we’re turning off the tap for good. Russia will no longer be able to use energy as a weapon against us.

More than 50 Gazans killed by IDF in scramble for food www.channel4.com/news/more-th...

Using cluster munitions in towns and cities is a war crime. Kyiv this morning.

blue skies restored today, as we headed up to the top of Karwendel for our final morning in the #BavarianAlps turf studded with colourful alpine flowers; mountain butterflies included Dewy Ringlet, Alpine Grizzled Skipper; and an Alpine Chamois spotted from Germany's second highest cable car

Former British Ambassador to Iran Sir Richard John Dalton says that Iran was not on the brink of getting a nuclear weapon "Iran has not taken a decision to develop nuclear weapons" "We should disbelieve Netanyahu's claims unless there is evidence, and I don't believe that evidence exists:

officially reached 1.5 days without nicotine now and I will say it: I think my body and my brain need to get over nicotine now, it's been long enough, they should be used to not having it anymore, why not simply move on

9 years since Jo Cox assassinated 😢 Since Jo’s murder we have seen society become more divided and increasingly polarised. This means that Jo’s message of unity remains just as relevant today as it was nine years ago. www.jocoxfoundation.org/2025/06/16/t...

Kent locals are furious as former Reform UK's chair Muhammad Yusuf allegedly lies about TV licence funded by Kent CC. Outrage grows as critics warn of 'Taqiyya' loophole in Sharia law - sparking fresh fears of Yusuf 'deceiving the hard-working Brits. #ukpolitics

some great plants today for our group in the #BavarianAlps

Nice to see humorous leadership advice to Ellie from Ed Milliband!

Byline Times: Resignations, Cancelled Meetings and Culture Wars: How Reform UK Councils Are Descending Into Chaos bylinetimes.com/2025/06/16/r...

DAILY MIRROR: Beware the trap: Kevin Maguire warns Starmer of Netanyahu's rogue tactics that could entangle the UK in another disastrous Middle East conflict. - by Kevin Maguire

We wouldn't have a war right now if Russia hadn't been excluded from the G7. — Trump Russia was expelled from the G8, reducing it to the G7, as a direct response to its invasion of Ukraine. 🤦‍♀️

🎂 (pre) Birthday livestream 8:30pm TONIGHT Feel free to ask questions about politics, media, life, Farage’s weird face. I’ll answer live. Bring wine, rage and a functioning bullshit detector. www.youtube.com/live/1UsQkCH...

Russian Tass state media has just published the following on its Telegram channel: "The parliament of Iran has approved a strategic partnership agreement with Russia. This was reported by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic in Russia." Very curious timing.

Honestly I still can’t stop laughing 😂😅🤣

BBC Newswatch desperately trying to justify their excessive exposure of ReformUK today, but every argument only supports the complaints. Of course, their support will grow if the other parties don't even get the airtime to promote their own policies! Absolutely outrageous bias from the BBC. 😡

Think the biggest area of gross negligence from Sunak and Hunt in the dying days of their govt was cutting NI *twice* when they *knew* how totally fucked the public sector was, prisons in particular. But we look back and are supposed to think they were the 'sensibles' in the Tory party. No thanks.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco #nokings

Pollution - there is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet. What a mess we have made: "Mercury is a potent neurotoxin. In the Arctic, top predators like polar bears and toothed whales, concentrations are now 20–30 times higher than before industrialization." phys.org/news/2025-06...

Reuters: Swiss government backs agreement strengthening economic ties to EU www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Assisted dying is about compassion, dignity, and choice. I backed the Assisted Dying Bill again yesterday because I believe terminally ill people deserve the right to choose a peaceful end, alongside access to quality palliative care.

Says the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, then killed thousands during Covid by being a dithering fool, then threw away his massive majority because he couldn't follow his own rules. Sit down and shut up you useless tit.

“Ever since Caesar’s pivotal decision, mankind has understood that the deployment of a nation’s armies against its own people marks the end of that nation.”

Let's all be the rain on this motherfucker's parade. #NoKings #NoKingsDay

Netanyahu’s illegal unilateral attack on Iran risks a full-blown war. These strikes directly undermine the U.S. diplomatic efforts to address Iran’s nuclear program. Talks were planned for Sunday, but Netanyahu chose to attack. We must not be dragged into another Netanyahu war.

Hearing this from quite a few people in Reform UK-controlled councils. From a local reader: "There are rumours as in other Reform UK controlled councils that a number of those elected stood to ‘make up numbers’ & never thought they would be elected & now don’t feel able to commit the time required"

The plunder of our seas by industrial fishing is a monstrosity in which almost everyone unwittingly collaborates. For decades this truth has been deliberately hidden from us. Now at last the consensus is cracking. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Private Eye exposing again the utter idiocy of our politics. This sums up *exactly* how Farage and Reform get rocket-boosted by a media, drunk on sensationalist nonsense. Unserious and irresponsible but it’ll be up to us to prove them wrong.

‘Tory MPs On Lib Dem Defection Watch’ Liberal Democrat figures believe Conservative MPs could be tempted to defect as the Tories prepare for a stark internal divide over the European Convention on Human Rights. #LibDems www.politicshome.com/news/article...

THE INDEPENDENT: Reynolds ridicules Farage's coal revival as a farcical misreading of working-class aspirations, defending Labour's vision for a modernised economy in Wales. - by Millie Cooke

Emily Thornberry, "I have to admit that when Brexit happened I thought the problem of Gibraltar was going to be so difficult that I really couldn't see how we would ever get over it" So basically the UK continues to celebrate the end of FOM with the EU, while Gibraltar is celebrating FOM 👍